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The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom Memoir_Gift_Guide Brightness Reef leaves you lookingFrom one of todays leading historians of the early medieval period, an enthralling chronicle of thelstan, Englands founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Britain as we know it The First King of England is a foundational biography of thelstan (d. 939), the early medieval king whose territorial conquests and shrewd statesmanship united the peoples, languages, and cultures that would come to be known as the